All images in one folder - good or bad?

[gjh42]

The code doesn't have to view each image. As far as I know, the main reason for using separate subfolders would be for human organizational purposes, if you have so many images that you can't keep them straight in one folder.

[bobdog]

Be careful, though. Many hosting services limit folders to 2000 files.

[gjh42]

2000 image files would be beyond what I would consider reasonable to organize in one folder, anyway... :)

[Website Rob]

Although the Folder limit of 2,000 is just a Linux default and easily changed by the Hoster, it is also true that the number of files within a Folder should be easily managed by a Human. There is also the maintenance issue, having images separated by some sort of scheme that makes sense to the site Owner is just a good idea.

[bobdog]

Well, one of the reasons I chimed in here is because I am facing that exact problem- I took on a web site that was originally in ColdFusion, and when I got the database and images, there were over 8,000 images in one folder.

Needless to say, I'll be needing a very large bottle of aspirin sorting things out.

[gjh42]

Hoo boy! Good luck!